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Important to add that virtually all of this “fraudulent” enrollment came from brokers manipulating the administration’s own federal exchange and little to none the many states based marketplaces. nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/po…
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We don’t take federal (or corporate) funding but I always thought theoretically we could accept NIH peer reviewed funding. Not so much now: politico.com/news/2026/09/19…
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The group research suggests is the most screwed in American health care. My new column: on.kff.org/4Aji0ef
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With the exception of a few “ company towns” that are not typical, most corporations don’t have the leverage to influence health costs significantly in the markets they operate in.
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I have studied corporations and health costs for 45 yrs. Their bark far exceeds their bite on health costs, and much of the talk comes from health benefits people; CEO’s have many other fish to fry.
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A caution. Usually, and for years, predicted increases in employer health premiums have significantly exceeded actual increases, for a bunch of reasons. But every year we think this is the year they will come true.
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One of the most dedicated, human, effective public servants I have ever known. And a wonderful former KFF trustee. apnews.com/article/nancy-kas…
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Dr Al-Sayeed’s win today means we will be getting a lot of questions about Medicare for All at KFF. But we are far from a policy debate about how it might work, be paid for, what the tradeoffs might be. For now M4A is rallying cry; it would not actually be the Medicare program.
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What’s the top issue… gas prices, health care costs, housing cost, food? Don’t believe the rankings in the polls — there isn’t one. My new column: on.kff.org/4bkVree
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Why we do many of our polls with major news organizations, on all kinds of issues not just health. My latest in my Untold History of KFF series: on.kff.org/4vHtNzc
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Most Americans are not buying the health care fraud boogeyman, but many Republicans are: kff.org/public-opinion/poll-…
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I bet you didn’t know we ran media campaigns all over the world, even in Putin’s Russia. I continue to write about our “untold” stories: on.kff.org/3QUvoDN
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Social media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni
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Is the Jalen Brown fiasco trade another indication of the corrosive influence of private equity on mental health? Mine.
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We have been about two things: policy and media, from day one. And before KFF Health News there was Kaisernetwork.org. Volume 2 in my KFF history tour: on.kff.org/4vLMtii
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As we head towards a leadership change next year, I’m reviewing the most innovative things we’ve done since I founded KFF in a special series of columns.
First, our decades long program in South Africa, as they advance in the World Cup: on.kff.org/4eupmmj
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When HCFA became CMS 25 yrs ago it signaled a subtle change in mission. HCFA, under, Joe Califano, saw itself as using all its leverage to control costs and change the whole health system. CMS, under Tommy Thompson, would have a more limited and more industry friendly mission.
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4) More Bob Blendon. When the RWJF started Bob was the SVP in charge of programs at what was then the most innovative of the big foundations. He was the obvious choice to be its 2nd president but for a misguided requirement they be MD’s. Bob began a second career at Harvard.
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3) And Bob Blendon helped produce countless “offspring”, including me, Mollyann Brodie, and many, many more.
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